Rumor: I Am Alive, but I may not look like these screens anymore

by Randy Nelson { Aug 3rd 2009 at 11:30PM }

German site PCGames got its hands ... er, server on a set of screenshots purported to be from an early version of Ubisoft's disaster game I Am Alive. The images, which originated at Unseen64, are said to come from a build of the title from when it was being worked on by Alone in the Dark dev Darkworks. (It's since been handed over to Ubisoft Shanghai.)

The screens look plenty disaster-y in their depiction of a post-earthquake Chicago. It's hard to make much of them, though, since they're, y'know, just environments. Let's hope the game's new developer is working hard to deliver gameplay akin to what the original teaser trailer hinted at.

[Via WorthPlaying]

Gallery: I Am Alive (Beta)

Tags: beta, darkworks, i-am-alive, screens, ubisoft, ubisoft-shanghai

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Discotheque @ Aug 3rd 2009 11:37PM

*sigh* the idea of this game has so much potential. Too bad the majority of Ubisoft games are just that...wasted potential.

ThatPCgameryouhate @ Aug 4th 2009 3:08AM

I'm rather found of Assasin's Creed, GRAW series, and Far Cry... aren't you?
And might I add, Beyond Good and Evil? o.0!

ThatPCgameryouhate @ Aug 4th 2009 3:09AM

I'm also rather fond of spelling things correctly. My bad :D

Damian @ Aug 4th 2009 4:05AM

If they used the assasins creed engine for this,it could be cool scaling destroyed buildings and broken bridges.

Shadow Hog @ Aug 3rd 2009 11:49PM

And believe me, I Am (still) Alive...
I'm doing science and I Am (still) Alive...
I feel fantastic and I Am (still) Alive...
And when you're dying, I Am (still) Alive...
And when you're dead, I Am (still) Alive...

CH3BURASHKA @ Aug 4th 2009 1:12AM

My God! It was before me the entire time, and I didn't see it!!! I didn't know... I didn't know...

Alex @ Aug 4th 2009 3:19AM

Is it not "And when you're dead, I will be still alive"? I know it ruins the joke, but you can't get it wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

Jampirow @ Aug 4th 2009 9:39AM

Come fire
Come fire
Let it burn and love come racing through...

Oh wait, Portal's Still Alive, not Mirror's Edge Still Alive, scrap that.

arisc2 @ Aug 3rd 2009 11:49PM

if they ever release this game i just hope is not another "wandering around with not too much to do game" just like most of the games that ubi makes...

doc j @ Aug 4th 2009 1:27AM

It's weird to me that one game in which you spend a lot of time riding around on a horse not doing much (Shadow of the Colossus) can be SO MUCH BETTER than another game where you spend a lot of time riding around on a horse not doing much (Assassin's Creed).

I don't mean to be sarcastic. SotC is a top 5 game of all time for me... Assassin's Creed was mediocre at best.

arisc2 @ Aug 4th 2009 11:25AM

that´s true, but maybe it has to do with the fact that shadow never tried to lie about what to expect from it. In the first 5 minutes you knew that the whole point of the game was to fight with the colossus, nothing more nothing less. They never tried to sell an amazing fully interactive world that it´s going to allow you to complete your missions in many different ways like assasins creed. To be honest shadow Does gets very boring when you have to travel from colossus to colossus, but for me it was acceptable as i knew that a huge epic battle was waiting.
but creed was very different, you waste too much time doing nothing, and the whole experience was not as nice as they said, and assasins creed 2 is looking like one of those games that depends more in their looks than in their fun factor.

Paul @ Aug 4th 2009 11:48AM

I'll have to argue that point. I never once saw any advertising or articles about shadow of the colossus. I just bought it one day used because it was cheap. It turned out to be my favorite game of all time.

it had nothing to do with the way they sold it, it had everything to do with the art direction of the whole package...the music, the environments, the big epic battles, the fact that you rode around this beautiful land and did nothing but destroy these beautiful creatures....tell me you didn't feel selfish after killing a few of them.

assassin's creed was just too long

arisc2 @ Aug 4th 2009 1:17PM

i wasn´t really saying that they sold it on a specific way, what i was saying is that the game itself let´s you know that the whole idea is to beat a colossus, plain simple, the world is huge but it´s never a real part of the game, as a matter of fact the whole world is a pretty empty space, you don´t really need too much explanations to know that the whole point is not the world but the battles.
with assasins creed however the whole idea was that you were on a living world, and that was going to make the game interesting one way or another, and it ended being a very boring experience, sadly that has happened with all the games of ubi soft lately, they only care about looks but game play is not really present in any of their games, shadow of the colossus is a masterpiece.